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Compromise for breakfast
Seth Godin relates a story about breakfast on his blog. Except its not about breakfast but about how compromise insidiously erodes your intent and how …
Read MoreSensemaking using heuristics
Sensemaking is described as how we make sense of the world so we can act meaningfully in it. One of the ways we make sense …
Read MorePositive deviance
One of the concepts of Appreciative Inquiry is to identify the positive deviants in a system and to find out what it is they are …
Read MoreManagement can kill a community of practice
I was reminded earlier this week of an event in 2000 when I was working for SMS consulting that demonstrated the dramatic and adverse impact …
Read MoreJoin Anecdote and make a difference
Last week, I was sitting in a hotel room in Sydney with Shawn and Andrew following a workshop by Brenda Dervin: sense-maker extraordinaire. The workshop re-confirmed …
Read MoreA question of balance
For centuries (until the 1950’s), scientists believed that the left side of our brains (the rational, analytical, logical side) was the crucial side; the side …
Read MoreThe importance of dialogue
Shawn’s series of posts on finding expertise has reminded me of one of my favourite quotes: an anthropologist’s description of an agricultural North American tribe …
Read MorePerspectives on problem solving
Individuals and organisations have many ways of tackling problems. A paper ‘Describing 16 Habits of Mind’ describes the following perceptual orientations that one can take …
Read MoreGetting management buy-in
The actKM list has a discussion underway to collect stories of how people have (either successfully or otherwise) tried to get management support for their …
Read MoreNew whitepaper – how to talk about knowledge management
For years we have been listening to presentations, reading articles and working with organisations in the KM field and probably the only consistent theme is the lack …
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